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Brownstein CD, Zapfe KL, Lott S, Harrington R, Ghezelayagh A, Dornburg A, Near TJ. Synergistic innovations enabled the radiation of anglerfishes in the deep open ocean. Curr Biol 2024; 34:2541-2550.e4. [PMID: 38788708 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2024] [Revised: 03/10/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
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Major ecological transitions are thought to fuel diversification, but whether they are contingent on the evolution of certain traits called key innovations1 is unclear. Key innovations are routinely invoked to explain how lineages rapidly exploit new ecological opportunities.1,2,3 However, investigations of key innovations often focus on single traits rather than considering trait combinations that collectively produce effects of interest.4 Here, we investigate the evolution of synergistic trait interactions in anglerfishes, which include one of the most species-rich vertebrate clades in the bathypelagic, or "midnight," zone of the deep sea: Ceratioidea.5 Ceratioids are the only vertebrates that possess sexual parasitism, wherein males temporarily attach or permanently fuse to females to mate.6,7 We show that the rapid transition of ancestrally benthic anglerfishes into pelagic habitats occurred during a period of major global warming 50-35 million years ago.8,9 This transition coincided with the origins of sexual parasitism, which is thought to increase the probability of successful reproduction once a mate is found in the midnight zone, Earth's largest habitat.5,6,7 Our reconstruction of the evolutionary history of anglerfishes and the loss of immune genes support that permanently fusing clades have convergently degenerated their adaptive immunity. We find that degenerate adaptive immune genes and sexual body size dimorphism, both variably present in anglerfishes outside the ceratioid radiation, likely promoted their transition into the bathypelagic zone. These results show how traits from separate physiological, morphological, and reproductive systems can interact synergistically to drive major transitions and subsequent diversification in novel environments.
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- Chase D Brownstein
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina Charlotte, 9331 Robert D. Snyder Rd., Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Department of Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division, 217 Ft. Johnson Road, Charleston, SC 29412-9110, USA
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- Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina Charlotte, 9331 Robert D. Snyder Rd., Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Peabody Museum, Yale University, 21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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Clark PU, Shakun JD, Rosenthal Y, Köhler P, Bartlein PJ. Global and regional temperature change over the past 4.5 million years. Science 2024; 383:884-890. [PMID: 38386742 DOI: 10.1126/science.adi1908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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Much of our understanding of Cenozoic climate is based on the record of δ18O measured in benthic foraminifera. However, this measurement reflects a combined signal of global temperature and sea level, thus preventing a clear understanding of the interactions and feedbacks of the climate system in causing global temperature change. Our new reconstruction of temperature change over the past 4.5 million years includes two phases of long-term cooling, with the second phase of accelerated cooling during the Middle Pleistocene Transition (1.5 to 0.9 million years ago) being accompanied by a transition from dominant 41,000-year low-amplitude periodicity to dominant 100,000-year high-amplitude periodicity. Changes in the rates of long-term cooling and variability are consistent with changes in the carbon cycle driven initially by geologic processes, followed by additional changes in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle.
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- Peter U Clark
- College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
- School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland, UK
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
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- Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers The State University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers The State University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
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Hou S, Stap LB, Paul R, Nelissen M, Hoem FS, Ziegler M, Sluijs A, Sangiorgi F, Bijl PK. Reconciling Southern Ocean fronts equatorward migration with minor Antarctic ice volume change during Miocene cooling. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7230. [PMID: 37945579 PMCID: PMC10636158 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43106-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
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Gradual climate cooling and CO2 decline in the Miocene were recently shown not to be associated with major ice volume expansion, challenging a fundamental paradigm in the functioning of the Antarctic cryosphere. Here, we explore Miocene ice-ocean-climate interactions by presenting a multi-proxy reconstruction of subtropical front migration, bottom water temperature and global ice volume change, using dinoflagellate cyst biogeography, benthic foraminiferal clumped isotopes from offshore Tasmania. We report an equatorward frontal migration and strengthening, concurrent with surface and deep ocean cooling but absence of ice volume change in the mid-late-Miocene. To reconcile these counterintuitive findings, we argue based on new ice sheet modelling that the Antarctic ice sheet progressively lowered in height while expanding seawards, to maintain a stable volume. This can be achieved with rigorous intervention in model precipitation regimes on Antarctica and ice-induced ocean cooling and requires rethinking the interactions between ice, ocean and climate.
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- Suning Hou
- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Guo J, Zong X, de Winter NJ, Goudsmit-Harzevoort B, Peterse F, Ziegler M. Assessing the effects of embedding resins on carbonate stable and clumped isotope analyses. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2023; 37:e9597. [PMID: 37580501 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Revised: 05/06/2023] [Accepted: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 08/16/2023]
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RATIONALE Embedding resins are widely used to fix carbonates for high-precision sample preparation and high-resolution sampling. However, these embedding materials are difficult to remove after sample preparation and are known to affect the accuracy of carbonate stable isotope analyses. Nevertheless, their impact on clumped isotope analysis, which is particularly sensitive to contamination artifacts, has so far not been tested. The observation that running resin-containing samples decreased the reproducibility of clumped isotope values for internal laboratory carbonate standards and increased the external standard deviation (SD 0.061-0.088‰) compared to the long-term observations (0.034‰), prompted us to set up an experiment to test the influence of resin addition on instrument performance. METHODS Here we analyzed the stable and clumped isotope composition of a pure calcium carbonate standard (ETH-4) mixed with three types of embedding resins in 2:1 and 1:1 proportions. Our aim was to assess how resin addition affects isotope analyses. RESULTS We found that none of the stable isotopic values were significantly different. The δ13 C values were -10.22 ± 0.07‰ (mean ± SD) for pure ETH-4, while the δ13 C values of ETH-4 mixed with embedding resins in 2:1 and 1:1 proportions were -10.21 ± 0.06‰ and -10.18 ± 0.06‰, respectively (p > 0.05). The δ18 O values were -18.82 ± 0.11‰ for pure ETH-4 versus -18.81 ± 0.09‰ and -18.82 ± 0.08‰ for 2:1 and 1:1 ETH-4:resin mixtures, respectively (p > 0.05). Given the large uncertainty in our results, we did not find significant differences between different mixtures in the carbonate clumped isotope values (Δ47 ), with 0.458 ± 0.107‰, 0.464 ± 0.086‰, and 0.417 ± 0.089‰ in pure ETH-4 and ETH-4 with 2:1 and 1:1 resin mixtures, respectively (p > 0.05). However, a resin-related bias in the results might be masked by the large uncertainty. The measured ETH-4 values in our study are similar to the InterCarb values (δ13 C = -10.20‰, δ18 O = -18.81‰, Δ47 = 0.450‰, InterCarb-Carbon Dioxide Equilibrium Scale). However, the external SD of Δ47 in sessions measuring ETH-4 with resins is higher than in sessions without deliberate resin addition for the same measuring period. CONCLUSIONS We find that the potential contamination from the resin addition leads to a larger variability for Δ47 values in sessions measuring ETH-4 including resins. We therefore recommend purification of embedded samples using a contamination trap with Porapak prior to analysis, if possible, or avoiding resins during sample preparation and workup, as well as monitoring the measurement quality during and after sessions with samples containing embedding resins.
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- Jingjing Guo
- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geoscience, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geoscience, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Analytical, Environmental and Geochemistry Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geoscience, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Estuarine & Delta Systems, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, 't Horntje, The Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geoscience, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geoscience, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Weldeghebriel MF, Lowenstein TK. Seafloor hydrothermal systems control long-term changes in seawater [Li +]: Evidence from fluid inclusions. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadf1605. [PMID: 37494431 PMCID: PMC10371017 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf1605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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Secular variations in the major ion chemistry and isotopic composition of seawater on multimillion-year time scales are well documented, but the causes of these changes are debated. Fluid inclusions in marine halite indicate that the Li concentration in seawater [Li+]SW declined sevenfold over the past 150 million years (Ma) from ~184 μmol/kg H2O at 150 Ma ago to 27 μmol/kg H2O today. Modeling of the lithium geochemical cycle shows that the decrease in [Li+]SW was controlled chiefly by long-term decreases in ocean crust production rates and mid-ocean ridge and ridge flank hydrothermal fluxes without requiring changes in continental weathering fluxes. The decrease in [Li+]SW parallels the 150 Ma increase in seawater Mg2+/Ca2+ and 87Sr/86Sr, and the change from calcite to aragonite seas, KCl to MgSO4 evaporites, and greenhouse to icehouse climates, all of which point to the importance of plate tectonic activity in regulating the composition of Earth's hydrosphere and atmosphere.
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- Mebrahtu F Weldeghebriel
- Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
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- Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
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van der Ploeg R, Cramwinckel MJ, Kocken IJ, Leutert TJ, Bohaty SM, Fokkema CD, Hull PM, Meckler AN, Middelburg JJ, Müller IA, Penman DE, Peterse F, Reichart GJ, Sexton PF, Vahlenkamp M, De Vleeschouwer D, Wilson PA, Ziegler M, Sluijs A. North Atlantic surface ocean warming and salinization in response to middle Eocene greenhouse warming. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eabq0110. [PMID: 36696500 PMCID: PMC9876553 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq0110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Quantitative reconstructions of hydrological change during ancient greenhouse warming events provide valuable insight into warmer-than-modern hydrological cycles but are limited by paleoclimate proxy uncertainties. We present sea surface temperature (SST) records and seawater oxygen isotope (δ18Osw) estimates for the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO), using coupled carbonate clumped isotope (Δ47) and oxygen isotope (δ18Oc) data of well-preserved planktonic foraminifera from the North Atlantic Newfoundland Drifts. These indicate a transient ~3°C warming across the MECO, with absolute temperatures generally in accordance with trace element (Mg/Ca)-based SSTs but lower than biomarker-based SSTs for the same interval. We find a transient ~0.5‰ shift toward higher δ18Osw, which implies increased salinity in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre and potentially a poleward expansion of its northern boundary in response to greenhouse warming. These observations provide constraints on dynamic ocean response to warming events, which are consistent with theory and model simulations predicting an enhanced hydrological cycle under global warming.
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- Robin van der Ploeg
- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Geosciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands
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- School of Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- MARUM – Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- MARUM – Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Institute of Geology and Paleontology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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de Winter NJ, Witbaard R, Kocken IJ, Müller IA, Guo J, Goudsmit B, Ziegler M. Temperature Dependence of Clumped Isotopes (∆ 47) in Aragonite. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 2022; 49:e2022GL099479. [PMID: 36589267 PMCID: PMC9788164 DOI: 10.1029/2022gl099479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Clumped isotope thermometry can independently constrain the formation temperatures of carbonates, but a lack of precisely temperature-controlled calibration samples limits its application on aragonites. To address this issue, we present clumped isotope compositions of aragonitic bivalve shells grown under highly controlled temperatures (1-18°C), which we combine with clumped isotope data from natural and synthetic aragonites from a wide range of temperatures (1-850°C). We observe no discernible offset in clumped isotope values between aragonitic foraminifera, mollusks, and abiogenic aragonites or between aragonites and calcites, eliminating the need for a mineral-specific calibration or acid fractionation factor. However, due to non-linear behavior of the clumped isotope thermometer, including high-temperature (>100°C) datapoints in linear clumped isotope calibrations causes them to underestimate temperatures of cold (1-18°C) carbonates by 2.7 ± 2.0°C (95% confidence level). Therefore, clumped isotope-based paleoclimate reconstructions should be calibrated using samples with well constrained formation temperatures close to those of the samples.
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- Niels J. de Winter
- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of ScienceVrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Analytical, Environmental and Geochemistry GroupVrije Universiteit BrusselBrusselBelgium
- Department of Earth SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Estuarine and Delta SystemsRoyal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research't Horntje, TexelThe Netherlands
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- Department of Earth SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Earth ScienceUniversity of GenevaGenevaSwitzerland
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- Department of Earth SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Earth SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Department of Estuarine and Delta SystemsRoyal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research't Horntje, TexelThe Netherlands
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- Department of Earth SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
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Alternating regimes of shallow and deep-sea diversification explain a species-richness paradox in marine fishes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2123544119. [PMID: 36252009 PMCID: PMC9618140 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2123544119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The deep sea contains a surprising diversity of life, including iconic fish groups such as anglerfishes and lanternfishes. Still, >65% of marine teleost fish species are restricted to the photic zone <200 m, which comprises less than 10% of the ocean's total volume. From a macroevolutionary perspective, this paradox may be explained by three hypotheses: 1) shallow water lineages have had more time to diversify than deep-sea lineages, 2) shallow water lineages have faster rates of speciation than deep-sea lineages, or 3) shallow-to-deep sea transition rates limit deep-sea richness. Here we use phylogenetic comparative methods to test among these three non-mutually exclusive hypotheses. While we found support for all hypotheses, the disparity in species richness is better described as the uneven outcome of alternating phases that favored shallow or deep diversification over the past 200 million y. Shallow marine teleosts became incredibly diverse 100 million y ago during a period of warm temperatures and high sea level, suggesting the importance of reefs and epicontinental settings. Conversely, deep-sea colonization and speciation was favored during brief episodes when cooling temperatures increased the efficiency of the ocean's carbon pump. Finally, time-variable ecological filters limited shallow-to-deep colonization for much of teleost history, which helped maintain higher shallow richness. A pelagic lifestyle and large jaws were associated with early deep-sea colonists, while a demersal lifestyle and a tapered body plan were typical of later colonists. Therefore, we also suggest that some hallmark characteristics of deep-sea fishes evolved prior to colonizing the deep sea.
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